Ahmedabad: India has put in place a game plan for electric vehicles (EV) and its components like batteries to ensure clean cities, reduce imports and utilise solar power, NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant said here on Saturday.
He said domestic battery manufacturing for electric vehicles provides a "massive market opportunity", and also quickens the transition to such environment-friendly transport, which is vital for the country to help combat pollution, congestion, strengthen energy security and create jobs.
Addressing a conference on sustainable mobility through video link, Kant said the country's EV focus should mainly be on two-wheeler and three-wheeler vehicles and public transport.
"We have a game plan to drive electric vehicles, particularly two and three-wheelers, public transport and manufacturing of batteries in India.
Our objective is that we should first work on about 80 per cent of components of two and three-wheelers and
buses and also push manufacturing of batteries in India," Kant said.
"Our objective is to clean up cities, reduce imports, and utilise the sun and its energy for driving electric vehicles," he said.